Parents urge UK universities to reveal student suicide rates

The University of Exeter, where 11 students are reported to have taken their own lives in the last six years. Photograph: View Pictures/Alamy

The parents of a 21-year-old student at the University of Exeter who took his own life after failing final-year exams have called for new legislation to require universities to publish the number of students who have killed themselves at their institutions.

Harry Armstrong Evans, from Cornwall, was in the third year of a physics and astrophysics degree at the Russell Group university at the time of his death in June 2021, which will be the subject of an inquest this week.